Biomolecules and Nanostructures 5

13-17 May 2015, Jaroszowice near Krakow, Poland

Programme

 

All posters will be viewed during the whole time of the conference. Please, place your poster immediately after arrival and dismount it not earlier than after the CLOSING LECTURE.

 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015


15:00 - 22:00 REGISTRATION

18:00 - 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION - GARDEN PARTY

 

THE OPENING
19:30 - 19:35 Marek Cieplak
Introduction

19:35 - 20:20 Jayanth R. Banavar
The geometry of life

20:20 - 22:00 DINNER AT BONFIRE


 

Thursday, May 14, 2015


BIOMOLECULAR COMPLEXES
Chair: Anna Niedzwiecka

9:00 - 9:30 Magda Konarska
The spliceosome: What it is, how does it work, and where did it come from?

9:30 - 10:00 Elizabeth Komives
Functional consequences of disorder in the NFkB signaling pathway

10:00 - 10:30 Marcin Nowotny
Molecular mechanisms in DNA repair and recombination

10:30 - 10:45 Maciej Jasinski
Interactions of 2'-O-methyl RNA oligomers with the ribosomal RNA A-site

10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)

 

NUCLEIC ACIDS
Chair: Jayanth R. Banavar

11:15 - 11:45 Koby Levy
Transient interactions between proteins and DNA and their role in regulatory processes

11:45 - 12:15 Arkadiusz Chworos
Synthetic RNA nanoparticles: their structure and function

12:15 - 12:45 Trinh Xuan Hoang
Modeling DNA condensates

12:45 - 13:00 Maciej Maciejczyk
DNA duplex formation with dipolar-bead coarse-grained model

13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

BIOMEMBRANES
Chair: Andrzej Sienkiewicz

14:30 - 15:00 Marta Pasenkiewicz-Gierula
Self-organisation of cholesterol in water

15:00 - 15:30 Jaroslaw Majewski
Neutron and X-ray scattering studies of bio-interfaces: from model lipid membranes to living cell cultures under flow stress

15:30 - 15:50 Horia Petrache
Van der Waals and electrostatic interactions in lipid membranes

15:50 - 16:05 COFFEE BREAK (short)

 

BIOMOLECULES AT INTERFACES
Chair: Koby Levy

16:05 - 16:35 Damien Thompson
Tuning the strength of van der Waals interactions in organic-inorganic interfaces

16:35 - 17:05 Anna Mitraki
From protein folding to self-assembling bionanomaterials and applications

17:05 - 17:20 Katarzyna Gajos
DNA arrays on biotin-streptavidin system

17:20 - 17:35 COFFEE BREAK (short)

 

PROTEINS
Chair: Annalisa Pastore

17:35 - 18:05 Emmanuel Levy
Protein super-assemblies are frequently visited during the course of evolution

18:05 - 18:20 Albert Perez-Riba
The effect of loop insertion on the folding of tandem-repeat protein

18:20 - 18:40 Tomasz Wlodarski
Co-translational folding

18:40 - 18:55 Mateusz Chwastyk
Pathways of folding of knotted proteins and the effects of co-translation

19:00 - 20:00 DINNER

 

20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION I (odd numbers)


 

Friday, May 15, 2015


MULTIDOMAIN AND MULTIMERIC PROTEINS
Chair: Magda Konarska

9:00 - 9:30 Laura Itzhaki
Tandem-repeat proteins: regularity plus modularity equals design-ability

9:30 - 10:00 Kerensa Broersen
Tuning the architecture of amyloid beta fibrils

10:00 - 10:30 Patricia Clark
Assembly of diverse proteins into stable, macroscopic, rope-like fibers

10:30 - 10:45 Alexander P. M. Guttenplan
Amyloid fibrils for biomaterials

10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (short)

 

SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES AND BIOMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS
Chair: Chris Johnson

11:00 - 11:30 Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Tracking the activity of protein translocases at the single-molecule level

11:30 - 12:00 Hannes Neuweiler
Dynamics of a spider silk protein revealed by single-molecule fluorescence quenching

12:00 - 12:20 Arek Kulczyk
Single-molecule studies of the replisome structure and dynamics

12:20 - 12:40 Papia Chowdhury
Indole based bioprobe inside cyclodextrin cavity

12:40 - 19:00 LUNCH AND TIME FOR AN EXCURSION TO CRACOW

19:00 - 20:00 DINNER

 

20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION II (even numbers)


 

Saturday, May 16, 2015


PROTEINS I
Chair: Elisabeth Komives

9:00 - 9:30 Pier-Andrea Temussi
The role of cold denaturation in assessing protein stability

9:30 - 10:00 Piotr Cieplak
Substrates recognition by matrix metalloproteinases

10:00 - 10:30 Mariusz Jaskolski
PR-10 proteins as versatile phytohormone binders

10:30 - 10:45 Aleksandra Skrajna
HDXMS in structural studies on the FLASH-LSM11 and FLASH-NPAT complexes

10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)

 

PROTEINS II
Chair: Michael Feig

11:15 - 11:45 Andrzej Kloczkowski
Fractal properties of proteins

11:45 - 12:15 Wladek Minor
Reproducibility in structural biology

12:15 - 12:35 Annett Bachmann
Crystal structures of thioxylated ribonuclease S

12:35 - 12:50 Joanna Sulkowska
Tadpoles: new entangled motifs in proteins

12:50 - 13:05 Aiswarya Premchandar
Cross-coiling patterns and crucial regions of contact during vimentin fibrillogenesis as revealed by HDXMS

13:05 - 14:30 LUNCH

 

METHODS IN PROTEIN SCIENCE
Chair: Patricia Clark

14:30 - 15:00 Ceslovas Venclovas
Interatomic contact areas as a means for the analysis and assessment of protein 3D structure

15:00 - 15:20 Sebastian Kmiecik
Protein-peptide docking

15:20 - 15:35 Przemyslaw Porebski
Automatic modeling of side chain conformations

15:35 - 15:50  Ksenia Maximova
Isothermal titration calorimetry as a method to study enzyme kinetics and inhibition. Trypsin catalyzed hydrolysis.

15:50 - 16:10 Jacek Achrem-Achremowicz, Wyatt
Quantifying the affinity and stoichiometry of an antibody-antigen interaction using Composition Gradient - Multi-Angle static Light Scattering (CG-MALS)

16:10 - 16:30 Piotr Wardega, NanoTemper
Quantitative analysis of biomolecular interactions with Microscale Thermophoresis (MST)

16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK (long)

 

FINALE
Chair: Marek Cieplak

17:00 - 17:30 Christopher J. Russo
Controlling protein adsorption on suspended graphene for electron cryomicroscopy

17:30 - 18:00 Malgorzata Lekka
Mechanosensing by normal and cancerous cells

18:00 - 18:30 Michael Hinczewski
Gripping tales of cellular adhesion: design principles of catch bonds

CLOSING LECTURE
18:30 - 19:00 Michael Feig
Structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules at cellular scales

19:30 - CONFERENCE BANQUET


 

Sunday, May 17, 2015


BREAKFAST AND DEPARTURE

10:00 - Group transportation to Krakow Main Train Station